DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

MOTORIST FINED; BREAKING BOTTLE IN STREET. [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, September 16. Stating that lie could - not understand the mentality of a man who committed such an act, Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon, convicted and fined Bartlett Grant Porter, who was charged with throwing glass in King Edward street on September 14th. Sub-Inspector Cummings said that on Saturday morning the defendant and a companion were driving along King Edward street in a car when the defendant threw out a bottle which broke into pieces. Constable Sinythe stopped the car and made the occupants pick up the glass, another car having 1 to be held up in the meantime lest its tyres should be ripped. His Worship said it was a serious offence. He could not understand the mentality of a man who would commit such an act. It was a menace both to children and other motorists.

WESTPORT PROPOSAL. WESTPORT, Sept. 17. The hope is expressed here that a 'Parliamentary'week-end excursion will be arranged to enable Members of Parliament to see the great earth and rock movements in the vicinity of Lyell. A boat leaving Wellington on Saturday morning would reach Westport on Sunday, and Members could then go on by car to the big slip at Arnolds, travelling the rest of the way on foot to the Lyell, on going 1-J miles further to the great slip. Unless one has seen these great earth movements for .himsqlf, one 'cannot realise the tremendous force behind the earthquake of-Juno 17tli last. The exursion would enable Members of Parliament to appreciate the task the Government has in restoring the roads to the former condition.

A VINDICTIVE INDIVIDUAL. WELLINGTON, .Sept. 17. Between 10 and 10.30 yesterday morning, a labourer named William Logan visited a boarding house and assaulted a cook with. whom lie had been keeping company. He then went away, but he returned to the house in the evening, when he destroyed some of the cook’s property and broke a window, before being finally handed over to the police. Logan was charged to-day with assault, theft of 10s, and mischief, and was convicted. The accused was fined £5 on the charges of mischief, and was ordered, to make good the damage. On the charge of assault he was convicted and discharged; and on the charge of theft was ordered to oomo up-for sentence if called upon within twelve months.

CHILD DROWNED. GISBORNE, ‘ Sept. 18. The eighteen months daughter of Maka Tauranga, of Hicks Bay, was missed by the mother for a lew minutes. It was found floating iii a pool nearby. Life was extinct. YOUNG MAN FOUND GASSED. I INVERCARGILL, Sept. 17. The body of Henry Cecil Drewe, aged 24, the only son of H. F. Drewe, of Invercargill, was found in the bedroom at his parents’ residence to-day, the gas being turned on.

CABLE FAULT REPAIRED. AUCKLAND, Sept. 17. A fault in. one of the Pacific Cable Board’s two cables between Suva and Norfolk Island was repaired by the steamer Iris on Monday night. The fault had developed near Norfolk Island and the Iris, which left Auckland on Thursday, arrived there on Sunday morning. The weather was unfavourable that day, but grappling was begun next morning, and the fault was located. Repairs were finished at midnight, and the vessel left immediately on' the return trip to Auckland. She is expected on Thursday. ;

LORRY RUNS OVER WOMAN NELSON, Sept. 17. Mrs'J. Fanselow, a resident of Hope, was knocked down by a motor lorry in Trafalgar Street this afternoon. The lorry passed over her body. The extent of her injuries is not yet known. Her husband was also in town, and when he saw his wife he went into a dead faint, and it was some time before lie was brought round. HINEMOA SAILS. AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. The Hinemoa left for Bluff at 1 a.m. with a volunteer crew, after a fruitless attempt to settle the dispute between the seamen and the owners, Spedding Ltd.